Category: CYBER SECURITY

keywords: european cybersecurity month, awareness campaign, luxembourg. “Cybersecurity is a shared responsability! “. This is the motto of the new cybersecurity awareness campaign this October 2018 hosted by the European Agency for Cybersecurity and the European Commission. This 2018 edition brings together more than 200 partners and offers 400 activities throughout Europe. In Luxembourg, the Ministry of the Economy is coordinating the local actors involved and supports the European Cyber ​​Security Month initiative, including Cybersecurity Week, from 15 to 20 October 2018. In the As part of Cybersecurity Week, more…

keywords: euro hpc, high performance computing, supercomputers, big data, industry, luxembourg. After the announcement of the establishment of the headquarters of the EuroHPC in Luxembourg, it is now the details of this major pan-European supercomputers project that are unveiled. The Prime Minister Bettel communicates today the provisional planning of this project, crucial for the competitiveness of companies and research centers in Europe so much the calculation power available today is insufficient and is a limit to the economic development, and requires the stakeholders to use computing power outside Europe with…

keywords: euro hpc, high performance computing, supercomputers, big data, industry, luxembourg. The European Commission today announces its willingness to install EuroHPC in Luxembourg. EuroHPC is the name of the European Union project in order to install a network of supercomputers in Europe, HPC stands for “High Performance Computing”. EuroHPC will acquire, implement and deploy an integrated pan-European supercomputer infrastructure across Europe. The need for speed and computing power are now such in the industrial, scientific and medical fields that traditional computers are not enough, specific computers are needed. Concretely the…

Having gone almost unnoticed by the general public in recent years, the blockchain and cryptocurrency phenomenon has been gaining momentum since the beginning of 2017 and has been accelerating since the middle of the year. The cause? The price of Bitcoin, the most famous cryptocurrency, has increased from $1000 at the beginning of the year to more than $ 18,000 in early December on some trading platforms. While for a long time Bitcoin was the only geeks matter who saw a great technical invention and criminals who hoped to hide…

keywords: cybersecurity, cloud, pentagon, aws, ovh, risk awareness. The last weeks have been rich in news concerning cybersecurity, Wannacry and Uiwix ransomware attacks, attacks on British hospitals, unavailability of French press websites using the Cedexis platform, the cyber risk is growing rapidly, which means that Europol that Europe is experiencing an unprecedented level of attack. Luxembourg is not excluded and is under a growing threat. The last two events are the OVH web/cloud service unavailability for 36 hours and the loss by the Pentagon of data hosted in the cloud….

keywords: luxtrust, cybersecurity week, digital identity, luxembourg. Luxtrust announces on Monday morning to its large bank customers a period of maintenance “test” tomorrow Tuesday 17 October 2017 from 09:00 to 12:00 that may cause disruption. In the middle of the cybersecurity week in Luxembourg, let’s remind that Luxtrust is a company whose Luxembourg State is a shareholder, as well as the main banks of the Luxembourg market, and is the pillar of the digital identity in the Grand Duchy. Share this page with:

keywords: cybersecurity competence center, cases, circl, risk prevention, luxembourg. While Luxembourg is increasingly targeted by cyber attacks, the IT risk associated with malicious actions is taken very seriously. The latest initiative taken by the Grand Duchy is the setting up of the C3 Cybersecurity Competence Center, the national center for cybersecurity skills, whose objective is: – an observatory of threats and vulnerabilities: The Center provides not only technical information, but also an overview of threats and protection mechanisms, as well as key measures and figures needed for good governance.– a training…

keywords: luxtrust, identification, cybersecurity, finance, banks, luxembourg. Without being informed in advance of an unavailability of the service Luxtrust, pillar of the digital identification in Luxembourg, this service is unavailable this Saturday morning. Any attempt to connect will result in the message “An error occurred.” No cause of unavailability nor time of service return is communicated. LuxTrust is a joint venture owned by the Government of the Grand Duchy with the main Luxembourg banks and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. LuxTrust is highlighted by the Luxembourg authorities as a symbol of digital…

keywords: cybersecurity, cases.lu, securitymadein.lu, best practices, risk prevention, luxembourg. While cyber attacks on Luxembourg are constantly increasing and Europol confirms the same trend at European level, cybersecurity is a major issue. Although no study to date has quantified losses to the Luxembourg economy as a result of cybercrime and companies are reluctant to report on financial losses related to cyber attacks, the amounts are significant, as an example the latest wave of ransomware Wannacry has in particular affected BNP Paribas Real Estate in Luxembourg. The Grand Duchy has been focusing…

keywords: google luxembourg, datacenter, cyber-security, government, luxembourg. While the arrival of a Google datacenter in Luxembourg takes longer than expected and that a start of disagreement within the government seems to appear on the matter, the National Representation asks questions at its turn. MP Laurent Mosar (CSV), after being surprised by the negotiations length, appealed to Carole Dieschbourg, Minister of the Environment and Etienne Schneider, Minister of the Economy, on the reality of the land presence in a green area (protected zone and not constructible land) envisaged to the installation…

keywords: cyberattack, cybersecurity, virus, luxembourg. Not a day without its ransomware type cyberattack? It is now the Chinese authorities who warn users after discovering a new ransomware type virus named UIWIX. This virus was detected last week by the Danish firm of cyber security Heimdal Security. The virus uses the same flaw in the Windows operating system as that used by WannaCry and spreads in the same way from one machine to another. It also has the same effects: data encryption and ransom demand by hackers. After infecting 200,000 machines…

keywords: cyber attack, cyber security, virus, adylkuzz, monero, luxembourg. Just recovered from the ransomware type “WannaCry” cyberattack that a new attack potentially even more important by the number of affected computers is announced. This time it is not a ransomware and a priori the data are not in danger. The “Adylkuzz” cyberattack simply consists in a “Trojan” (like WannaCry) that uses a flaw in the Windows operating system in its older (non-upgraded) versions and uses the computer’s resources to create crypto-currency Monero and repatriate these Monero to the initiators of the attack and…

keywords: cyber attack, cyber security, ransomware, wannacry, luxembourg. This Saturday, May 13 at 6 pm the Luxembourg Government communicates on the dangers of the “WannaCry” ransomware worldwide cyber attack. The Government explains that the virus is spread by the mailbox and that it uses a vulnerability of the Windows operating system. It is therefore recommended not to open doubtful e-mails. A Windows security update (MS17-010) is available and must be installed. For more than 24 hours now the world is facing what Europol calls ransomware “unprecedented attack”. Large companies and…

keywords: cyber security, cyber attack, wannacry, ransomware, europol. After 24 hours of cyber attacks, more than 90 countries are affected and among the world’s largest companies. The biggest Spanish firms (including the telecommunications giant Telefonica), the British hospitals, the Renault carmaker in France (a production center had been stopped), nothing seems to be able to stop the surge of ransomware judiciously named “WannaCry”. The various judiciary authorities of the concerned countries open investigations in order to find their origin. The economic impact is probably big. Europol, which synchronizes all European Polices, declares:…

keywords: cyberattacks, hospitals, england, ransomware. After the recent attacks on the servers of Luxembourg state and then Cedexis infrastructure triggering the main French press sites offline for one hour, it is now the English hospitals to undergo a large-scale computer attack. This attack is of the “ransomware” type, messages appear on the screens of the computers indicating that the “computers are now in the hands of the pirates and that to unlock the situation one has to pay”. Some hospitals are forced to divert emergencies to other hospitals, or postpone…

keywords: cyber attack, ddos, cyber-security, press, france. After the massive attacks on the Luxembourg State servers, several French press websites such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, Sud Ouest, 20 Minutes, L’Obs were unavailable for about an hour on Wednesday afternoon. The cause is an IT attack, not to these titles directly, but to their IT provider. The situation was back to normal at 17:40. Cedexis company is the provider (a sort of web control tower that routes traffic based on network overload) that suffered a large DDOS attack. The main French media sites are…

keywords: rfid chip, security badge, weird. Charity begins at home. It is this adage put into practice by a Belgian marketing company by making the buzz for itself. In fact, to combat the loss of the access badge of its employees, this company decided to replace the security badge with an RFID chip that it decided to implant under the skin, more precisely in the hand between the thumb and forefinger. This chip then allows access to the building, but also to unlock the computer, to unlock the printer and…

keywords: cyberattacks, ddos, fernand kartheiser, xavier bettel, luxembourg. MP Fernand Kartheiser (ADR) sent a parliamentary question on 7 April requesting details of DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks that government servers and servers in some private companies in the Grand Duchy suffered recently. Among the private companies whose servers were attacked, the name of Paul Würth appeared in the press but the firm didn’t confirm. In a session to the Parliament few weeks ago, Prime Minister Bettel said that the heart of the State servers have not been reached, that the security…

keywords : hacking, security, cyber security, security cameras, video surveillance. As a hacker or as a security manager you always ask what is most simple way to hack a company, maybe your own company. The threat as often come from inside. Employees make your company vulnerable. As a security responsible you consider your company and IT system locked from inside. That is a big mistake. Even with video surveillance you cannot see everything. In actual fact the best and most simple way to hack a company is to let an…